Home as a Gordian Knot of Problems from the Selected Short Stories of Temsula Ao

Abstract

Home is a place where one finds joy, peace, happiness, the place that also bonds up with cluster amenities of emotions, feelings shared within a circle named family. People duel to sort and seek the betterment of love filled happiness. Followed by the writings of Temsula Ao, the happiness of Naga people at their home is challenging one. Then real meaning of home tied like a Gordian knot that could never be untied from torture. The invasion of the underground army and so called higher officials curled up the life of the people to gun fire, beatings, rape, and murder also with natural misfortunes. The people seek to get the real bond of so called ‘Home’, but it turns like a field of war. The real sense of home they secure only in the forest.